Pursuant to section 360(1) of the Resource Management Act 1991, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.

1 Title

2 Commencement

3 Principal regulations amended

4 New regulation 35 substituted

35 Filing fee

Regulations

1 Title

These regulations are the Resource Management (Forms, Fees, and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 2009.

2 Commencement

These regulations come into force on the 28th day after the date of their notification in the Gazette.

3 Principal regulations amended

These regulations amend the Resource Management (Forms, Fees, and Procedure) Regulations 2003.

4 New regulation 35 substituted

Regulation 35 is revoked and the following regulation substituted:
“35 Filing fee

“(1) The filing fee for commencing appeal or inquiry proceedings in the Environment Court under any of sections 118(6), 120 and 121, 127(3), 132(2) and (3), 136(4)(b), 137(5), 139(6), 139A(9), 174, 176A(5), 179, 181(2), 192(c) and (f), 195, and 358 of the Act, or clauses 14, 27, and 29(6) and (7) of Schedule 1 of the Act, is $500.

“(2) The filing fee for commencing any other proceedings in the Environment Court is $55.”

Michael Webster,
for Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations, which come into force on the 28th day after their notification in the Gazette, amend the Resource Management (Forms, Fees, and Procedure) Regulations 2003. The regulations increase the amount of the filing fee for commencing appeal or inquiry proceedings in the Environment Court from $55 to $500.

Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

Date of notification in Gazette: 9 April 2009.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry for the Environment.

Resource Management (Forms, Fees, and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 2009